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the large body, the Mennonite Church, by depriving it of the needed checks on a too rapid cultural change"; (3) it revealed excessive preoccupation with a determination to resist certain changes which in the long run brought vitality to the church.

55. Harold Bauman, "Chestnut Ridge Mennonite Church," ME, 1 (1955), p. 554.

56. Harold Bauman, "Chester Mennonite Church," ME, 1 (1955), p. 553.

57. Wilmer D. Swope, "Pleasant View Old Order Mennonite Church," ME, IV (1959), p. 192.

58. Mennonite Yearbook and Directory, Vol. 58 (Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Publishing House, 1967), pp. 99, 100.

5. The Rise of the Sunday School

1. For a comprehensive work which sets the Mennonite Sunday school movement in historical perspective and which shows its relation to other religious educational programs in the church see Paul M. Lederach, "History of Religious Education in the Mennonite Church" (unpublished doctor's dissertation, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1949).

z. John S. Umble, Ohio Mennonite Sunday Schools (Goshen, Ind. Mennonite Historical Society of Goshen College, 1941), p. 16.

3. Ibid., p. 16.

4. Ibid., p. 105.

5. Ibid., p. 108.

6. Ibid., p. 116.

7. Harold S. Bender, Mennonite Sunday School Centennial 1840-1940 (Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Publishing House, 1940), p. 34. This pamphlet summarizes much important data on the Sunday school movement in Ohio and sees it as an awakening and creating force in missions and youth programs. The influence of D. L. Moody on John F. Funk is reflected in Funk's own words: "As fellow workers and Sunday school teachers we worked together. . . . I must confess that in his devotion to the cause of religious labor and devotion he was a very influential man, and his influence continually spurred on to activity which through my sixty years in the Mennonite Church helped a great deal to bring about the prosperous condition of the Mennonite Church," quoted in Paul M. Lederach, op. cit., p. 91. It is noteworthy, too, that as a young man John F. Funk attended his first young people's meeting in the company of Moody, ibid., p. 196. Something of the close relation between Moody and Funk is told in the latter 's biography. In 1926 when "Funk was ninety years of age he was asked, as one of the persons still living who knew Moody, to speak at the dedication of the Moody Memorial Church," Helen Kolb Gates, et al., Bless the Lord, 0 My Soul: A Biography of Bishop John Fretz Funk, 18351930 (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1964), pp. 43, 44.

8. John S. Umble, op. cit., pp. 168, 172.

9. Ibid., pp. 176-81.

10. Ibid., pp. 183, 185.

11. Ibid., pp. 214, 215.

12. Ibid., p. 216.

13. Ibid., p. 227.

14. Ibid., pp. 247, 249.

15. Ibid., pp. 249-56.

16. Ibid., p. 284.

17. Ibid., pp. 293, 294.

18. Ibid., p. 276.

19. Ibid., p. 327.

20. OEMCR: Martin's Creek congregation, Millersburg, Ohio. 21. John S. Umble, op. cit., pp. 308-10.

22. Ibid., pp. 359, 360. For an account of the role of Bishop Nicholas Johnson in upholding the Sunday school see Umble, ibid., pp. 35, 359. Johnson defended Sunday schools as early as 1866 at the Ohio Mennonite Conference. For background data on Johnson see Sanford G. Shetler, Two Centuries of Struggle and Growth, 1763-1963: History of the Allegheny Mennonite 'Conference (Allegheny Mennonite Conference: Scottdale, Pa., 1963), pp. 210-12.

23. OEMCR: Maple Grove congregation, New Wilmington, Pa.